With Canada Day this week, it’s the perfect time to pay deep homage to the Canadian Explorer rose series. In the past, Canadians could only long for the kind of rose gardens that bloomily flourish in ...
The first Explorer rose, Martin Frobisher, was introduced in 1968. This hardy rugosa, which flowers freely throughout the summer at Ottawa, is vigorous, well proportioned, and grows to a height of 1.5 ...
Felicitas Svejda, right, and writer Ann Hemsley Parsons admire the explorer shrub rose David Thompson, which Svejda bred specially to thrive in the Canadian climate. (Photo: Andreas Heidebrecht/CanGeo ...